]]>https://leveller.ca/2019/01/wetsuweten-solidarity-rally-confronts-trudeau-in-ottawa/feed/0Canadian Oil Industry Still Making Billionshttps://leveller.ca/2018/11/canadian-oil-industry-still-making-billions/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/canadian-oil-industry-still-making-billions/#respondWed, 14 Nov 2018 00:01:07 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4884By Rick Telfer Alberta’s tar sands continue to be enormously profitable for the five largest bitumen-extractive corporations in Canada, according to a new report released on Nov. 8 by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) and the Alberta-based Parkland Institute. The report – entitled “Boom, Bust, and Consolidation: Corporate Restructuring in the Alberta Oil …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/canadian-oil-industry-still-making-billions/feed/0Canada Post’s Rotating Strikeshttps://leveller.ca/2018/11/canada-posts-rotating-strikes/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/canada-posts-rotating-strikes/#respondTue, 13 Nov 2018 23:43:59 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4878By Caroline Rodriguez-Charette Canada Post workers are partaking in rotating strikes all across the country, with no indication of when they will end. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), which represents 50,000 employees, have been on strike since Monday, Oct. 22, due to their demands not being met. The job action will continue to increase …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/canada-posts-rotating-strikes/feed/0Minister Fullerton Can’t Hide from $15 and Fairnesshttps://leveller.ca/2018/11/minister-fullerton-cant-hide-from-15-and-fairness/
https://leveller.ca/2018/11/minister-fullerton-cant-hide-from-15-and-fairness/#respondTue, 13 Nov 2018 23:30:28 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4872By Brad Evoy On Nov. 2, students and workers from across the Ottawa region gathered at the Kanata office of Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Merrilee Fullerton. They were there to protest the repeal of fair labour laws and the $15 minimum wage within Ontario. Last year, the Ontario labour movement had heralded a …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/11/minister-fullerton-cant-hide-from-15-and-fairness/feed/0NAFTA 2.0 Updates Exploitationhttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/nafta-2-0-updates-exploitation/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/nafta-2-0-updates-exploitation/#respondTue, 16 Oct 2018 21:10:02 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4732By Rick Telfer On Sep. 30, after more than a year of negotiations, Canada and the United States reached an agreement to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with a new trade agreement: the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA). The United States had reached an agreement with Mexico before completing negotiations with Canada. NAFTA …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/nafta-2-0-updates-exploitation/feed/0Mass Eviction in Herongatehttps://leveller.ca/2018/10/mass-eviction-in-herongate/
https://leveller.ca/2018/10/mass-eviction-in-herongate/#respondTue, 16 Oct 2018 18:39:47 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4723By Andy Crosby The Herongate Tenant Coalition and their allies rallied on Oct. 4 to protest the mass eviction of over 500 members of their community, one of Ottawa’s most diverse neighbourhoods. Timbercreek Communities and its parent company Timbercreek Asset Management (TCOM), who purchased the housing development between Walkley and Heron Roads in 2013, ordered …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/10/mass-eviction-in-herongate/feed/0Ford Nixes Modern Sex Edhttps://leveller.ca/2018/09/ford-nixes-modern-sex-ed/
https://leveller.ca/2018/09/ford-nixes-modern-sex-ed/#respondFri, 21 Sep 2018 03:27:28 +0000http://leveller.ca/?p=4608By Rick Telfer The newly elected Progressive Conservative government under Premier Doug Ford announced on July 11 that it was repealing the 2015 sexual education update to the health and physical education curriculum for elementary school children. The repeal was one of Ford’s key election campaign promises. The former Liberal government, under then-premier Kathleen Wynne, …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/09/ford-nixes-modern-sex-ed/feed/0“Rights Framework” Shoves Self-Determination Into a Boxhttps://leveller.ca/2018/09/rights-framework-shoves-self-determination-into-a-box/
https://leveller.ca/2018/09/rights-framework-shoves-self-determination-into-a-box/#respondFri, 21 Sep 2018 03:20:04 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4676Andy Crosby As business resumed in the Canadian House of Commons on Sept. 17, grassroots Indigenous movements began mobilizing in preparation for the roll-out of a legislative overhaul of federal Indian policy this fall. On Sept. 14, the grassroots Indigenous groups Defenders of the Land, Idle No More and Truth Campaign, who together comprise the …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/09/rights-framework-shoves-self-determination-into-a-box/feed/0Ottawa Rising for Climate Justicehttps://leveller.ca/2018/09/ottawa-rising-for-climate-justice/
https://leveller.ca/2018/09/ottawa-rising-for-climate-justice/#respondFri, 21 Sep 2018 03:10:05 +0000https://leveller.ca/?p=4679Aaron Thornell There is a climate movement forming in Ottawa, evidenced by the over 100 people who gathered in Minto Park on Sept. 8 to create art for the continuing resistance, as part of a global day of action known as Rise for Climate. The community-building event drew a variety of individuals from diverse backgrounds …

]]>https://leveller.ca/2018/09/ottawa-rising-for-climate-justice/feed/0Tenant coalition fighting evictions in Ottawa told to ‘cease and desist’https://leveller.ca/2018/08/herongate-cease-and-desist/
Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:51:46 +0000http://leveller.ca/?p=4366Real estate company Timbercreek announced in May that low-rent townhomes would be demolished. By Andy Crosby This article was first published by ricochet on July 23, 2018. A company that issued eviction notices to over a hundred families in Ottawa’s Heron Gate neighbourhood has now sent a cease and desist notice to the tenant coalition …